Overall the chancellor’s spending plans aim to boost UK economic output, with the level of capital invest to rise from £79bn to £106bn in the next four years.

On the 5th December government published a forward-looking pipeline of planned projects and programmes in housing, and economic and social infrastructure. This sets out over £500 billion worth of planned private and public investment over this Parliament and beyond, with more than 40% of the pipeline being delivered thanks to government investment. And early next year government is to announce a new PF2 pipeline covering social and economic infrastructure schemes.